What was the role of Canadian women in World War II? Have a look at these sources to find out some of the many ways that they contributed to the war effort, and some sexist attitudes about how their roles were perceived. As noted by the National Film Board in describing one of the films (Proudly She Marches), even though it was a recruitment film the "visual messages suggests that this work is merely temporary and possibly even unnatural for women."

Women workers cleaning a locomotive in a roundhouse, January 1943.(Nicholas Morant/National Film Board of Canada. Library and Archives Canada/C-079524)

Watch women in action during World War II

Check out these online films produced by the National Film Board:

The documentary Proudly She Marches.
Jane Marsh, 1943. 18 min. An NFB recruitment film with info on how women were trained to handle work in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service.